Guides legal research from issue framing through authority collection, jurisdiction scoping, source prioritization, synthesis, and pre-filing updates. Use when planning or auditing legal research, building a research trail, developing rule statements, comparing authorities, or updating citations before filing.
Repeatable workflow for researching a legal issue, prioritizing controlling authority, and documenting a filing-ready research trail.
Use this skill for the overall research process.
Use authority-verification when the task specifically requires citation verification, source retrieval, or case.dev-based authority checks.
Define:
Identify:
Start with:
Use persuasive authority and secondary sources to:
Produce:
Before relying on the work product:
Always preserve: